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ZOOLOGICAL LITEEATURE. 
Staphylinid^. 
ScHiODTE (NaturK. Tidsskr. 3rd ser. vol. iii. pp. 193-195) 
describes the general characters of the larvae of the insects of 
this family^ aiid in detail those of the following species : — 
Staphylinus maxillosus (Lin.), pp. 195-197 ; Ocypus oleus (MiilL), pp, 197- 
199, pi. 9. figs. 1-6 j Fhilonthus nitidus (Fab.), pp. 199-200, pi. 9. figs. 6- 
17 j P, atratus (Gray.), p. 200 j Xantholinus (Gray.), pp. 201-203, 
pi. 9. fig. 18, and pi. 10. figs. 1-7 j Quediusi dUatatus (Fab.), pp, 203-204, 
pi. 10. figs. 9-16 j Q. fulgidvs (Fab.), p. 206, pi. 10. figs. 17-22 j Oxyporus 
maxillosus (Fab.), pp. 208-209, pi. 11. figs. 1-14; PlatystetJ^us morsitam 
(Payk.), pp. 210-211, pi. 11. figs. 16-22 ; Bledius hinnulus (Erichs.), 
p. 212, pi. 12. figs. 16-19; B. tricornis (Herbst), p. 213, pi. 12. figs. 4-13; 
B. fracticornis (Payk.), p. 213, pi. 12. fig. 20 ; B. pallipes (Gray.), p. 214, 
pi. 12. figs. 21 & 22 ; and B. talpa (GylL), p, 214, pi. 12. figs. 23-32. The 
same author describes and figures the pupae of Staphylinus maxillosus, p. 206, 
pi. 10. fig. 8; Philofithus ceneus (Gray.), p. 206, pi. 12. fig. 1 ; Quedius (scin~ 
tillans ?), p. 206 ; Xantholinus lentus, p. 206, pi. 12, fig. 2 ; Platystethus vior- 
sitans, p. 214, pi. 12. fig. 3 ; and Bledius tricornis, p. 214, pi. 12. fig. 14. 
Bland has commenced (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vol. iv, pp. 391- 
425) a series of papers containing descriptions of the North 
American Staphylinidse, copied and translated from the works of 
their original describers. The portion published includes only 
the Aleocharini ; the species are giyen as enumerated in Le- 
conte^s list of North American Coleoptera ; and the characters 
of the genera and higher groups are taken froin the same author^s 
classification of Coleoptera, and arranged in a tabular form. 
Fauyel, in his remarks on the ^aphylinidce of Grenier’s catalogue of the 
Coleoptera of France (Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm, tome ix. pp. 348-361), discusses 
in the first place the position of this family in the system, and the yalue of 
the characters on which this rests. He maintains that the true position of 
the Staphylinid(B is between the Palpicornes and the Pselaphidce, and not be- 
tween the latter and the Histeridce, where they are placed by Grenier. Fau- 
yel also objects to the position giyen in Grenier’s catalogue to the genera 
Hetet'othops and Oxyporus (1. c. pp. 352, 863). The remainder of his paper 
is occupied by additions to the catalogue and collections of nomenclature and 
synonyms in the Staphylinidce. 
On the speqies of this family inhabiting Ants’ nests see Von Hagens’s paper 
on Ants’-nest Beetles, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1865, pp. 106-110. {Cf, p. 399.) 
The following known species of this family are recorded as newly dis- 
coyered in this country : — Borhoropora kraatzii (Fuss) by Power, Ent. M. 
Mag. i. p. 222 (as B. saidcyi, Kraatz, according to Bye, Ent. Ann. p. 63) ; Myr- 
medonia plicata (Erichs.) by Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. Noy. 1865, Ent. M. Mag. 
ii.p. 169 ; Lithocharis maritima (Aub<5) by Crotch, Proc. Ent. Soc. Noy. 1865, 
and Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 169 ; Olophrum fuscum (Gray.) by Sharp, Ent. M. 
Mag. ii. p. 13; Omalium lapponicum (Zett.) by Sharp, /. c, p. 157 (as 0. 'pi- 
neti, Thoms,, according to Bye, Ent. Ann. p. 71). 
